Welcome to the Oracle Challenge, the contest that tests your prediction abilities down to the hundredth of a percent!

The Challenge

For each match in the GameFAQs Summer Contest you need to pick a winner and predict the percentage of the vote they will receive. New participants are still being accepted until at least the end of round 3 (please indicate that you are new and make a minimum of three picks).

Post your predictions in this topic, one prediction per line. Your predictions must start with the name of your winner and end with your predicted percentage. Examples:

Link with 85%Link 55.13%Link over CATS with 67.55%Link - 77.5%

Please use one of these formats, and always remember to include the % sign. Predictions are entered into our database by a script, which may miss your predictions if you use a weird format.

The Scoring

For each match you will earn points based on how close your guess was to the actual outcome. Scoring is cumulative and the winner of the Oracle Challenge will be the person with the most points at the end of the final match. For each match you can earn anywhere from 0 and 50 points. The scoring system works as follows:

Correctly choosing the winner earns you 50-x points.Incorrectly choosing the winner earns you 45-x points.(Where x is the difference between your guess and the character's actual percentage.)

It is necessary to have a few rules to keep the challenge running smoothly. They are:

1) A valid entry consists of a clear pick and prediction (i.e. Link with 85.03%). The prediction must be greater than or equal to 50.00%.2) Your prediction does not need to be different from everybody else's. However, intentional and continuous prediction mimicry will not be allowed.3) All predictions must be made five minutes before the usual start time of that match's poll (approx. 11:55pm EST, 10:55am CST, 8:55pm PST). Predictions submitted after this time will not be counted or may be subject to penalty. No predictions will be accepted after a poll has started, regardless of the start time.4) You may change your prediction for any match at any time, subject to the rules above. Please indicate clearly that this is a change to a previous entry.5) You may not delete any post in a prediction topic (if you do, please post immediately after to explain the deletion). This is to prevent abuse of the above rule and to reduce confusion.ANYONE CAUGHT CHEATING (Including but not limited to deleting changes after the start of a match) WILL IMMEDIATELY BE DISQUALIFIED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CONTEST.6) If you post with an alt, you must clearly state the name of your main account. (Exception: if the alt is listed on your user profile page <http://oraclechallenge.com/profiles.php?type=users>, I already know about it).7) You may predict matches in advance if you need to. Please tell me beforehand so we can arrange this.8) I reserve the right to disqualify a pick for any justifiable reason.

Team Challenge

The popular team challenge is returning for a second contest. The rules for the team challenge are simple:

1. Sign up with a partner before the beginning of the first match.2. Make just one prediction per match - it counts for the Oracle Challenge and the Oracle Team Challenge.3. Your team score for the day is equal to both team members' scores added together.4. If one player misses a prediction, the team will get either (partner's score * 2) or (partner's score + average score for the day), whichever is lower. This is to keep teams from being eliminated by one missed prediction, and ONLY applies to the team scores.---....TCELES B HSUP

We are now accepting predictions for the remainder of round 3 and all round 4 matches where both competitors are fixed. Please do not try to predict the last round 4 match until at least 3 hours after the start of the last round 3 match, or your prediction may be counted for the wrong round!

For once the Nintendo character didn't do better during the first hour than during the rest of the day - this board loves Solid Snake. Yoshi shaved off percentage throughout the day, but Snake still cruised to an easy victory. The consensus was a Snake with 57.87% and the average score was a very good 47.64 points. All 107 predictors had Snake winning the match.

Interesting top 5 today. Vlado gets the highest score with a perfect prediction, joining the "two perfect predictions" club. The other members of the club are Xuxon (the original) and Team Rocket Elite and XIII is cool, who both did it this contest. Amyvitality gets an unlucky second place with a 49.99 score. Third is a two-way tie between former #1 Karma Hunter and current #2 Aprosenf. Finally, we have a three-way tie for fifth between kawaiifan, Big Bob, and yoblazer.

Team Unfinished FFP is back in action! They've been quiet for a while, but today they take the top score with a great 99.39 points. Team Jigglypuff is second and Team Predestined Divination is in third, both of them also scoring over 99 points. Current leaders Team mvp's keep the pressure on by scoring fourth for the day. Finally, team Go Go Gadget Copter! gets their third top 5 in a row.

The top 4 teams all remain the same on this high-scoring day. Team Predestined Divination manages to move up one spot and take over fifth place from Team Accident. Currently Team mvp's are well ahead of the pack, but things can change quickly in the team contest.

Mega may be weaker than he's ever been, and Snake stronger than he's ever been, but I still just can't see Snake taking it.---Huh? Finger!? What the hell? -CloudGame over, what was a bad joke is now a reality show. -Sonata Arctica

Sonic the Hedgehog with 54.9%Crono with 57.4%---You're in a clique with Vlado and Inviso. That's the nerdy group in the school cafeteria that sits away from everybody else gossiping about the cool kids in whispers, except instead of whispers, it's AIM, and instead of the school cafeteria, it's the board 8 community. -- Shake

Samus Aran with 58.12%Zelda with 60.37%Solid Snake with 51.02%---"Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=2916&diff=4